THE SERVANT OF GOD. him, on his return fromAmerica, in 1747, topreach at her house in Park Street, Chelsea. He was a highly interesting individual, and one to strike at first sight ; his person was graceful, his features were good and regular, his countenance manly, his eyes dark and capable of great expression, despite his squint. His preaching was irrresistible ; " plain in his language, and forcible in his manner, de- claring what he believed with alternate bursts of the terrific and the tender, which startled and melted the audience, and moved them as the tree-tops in the wind, "-with a marvellous, organ -like voice, few could withstand him. " Aye, sure," said an old man at Chinnor, who had heard him preach, " aye, sure, he was a jolly, brave man; and what a look he had when he put out his hand thus, to rebuke a disturber, as tried to stop him under the pear-tree. The man had been threatening and noisy ; but he could not stand the look. Off he rode, and Whitfield said, ' There he goes, empty barrels make the most din.' " He preached several times in Lady Huntingdon's saloon ; and the fervid eloquence of the Noncon- formist divine impressed, for their eternal welfare, many of the Countess's fashionable friends. Lady Chesterfield was one of these. She had been leading as gay and careless a life as her lord ; but being attracted by curiosity to hear Whitfield, she learned, for the first time, to comprehend the words of promise and of warning which had hitherto fallen on inattentive ears. Regardless of the storm of 21
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